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   charter.net (Ben Myers to jjwweerrff@phil.uu.nl   
   Re: Are monitor drivers necessary? Buyin   
   12 May 05 00:00:38   
   
   XPost: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell, microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion,   
   alt.windows95   
   XPost: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq   
   From: @   
      
   Win 95c was the last OEM version, with more or less minor fixups compared to   
   Win   
   95b, just before Windows 98 FE.  Some Windows 95 historian can fill in all the   
   details of the differences between b and c... Ben Myers   
      
   On Thu, 12 May 2005 00:23:27 +0200, "Pixel  \"#~"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Earlier Tim Slattery muttered:   
   >   
   >>>Well, whatever the original Windows 95 was called, it was released well   
   before   
   >>>its time.  If Windows 95A with SP1 included FAT32 support, at least it was a   
   >>>step forward.  If not, I have to put it in the same garbage pail as the   
   original   
   >>>Windows 95... Ben Myers   
   >>   
   >>It didn't. FAT32 debuted with OEM SR2 (Win95b). That was an OEM   
   >>release only, there was no (official) way to upgrade an original Win95   
   >>or Win95a system to Win95b. Various people - Sean Erwin comes to mind   
   >>- posted workarounds to that.   
   >   
   >Speaking of which, what's this Win95c I sometimes here about?   
   >   
   >   
   >--   
   >pixel   
   >   
   >So many idiots - so few comets.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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